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Consider this common construction: She ran to the end of the field and never looked back.Or you might find this punctuation:She ran to the end of the field, and never looked back.I think the second is more common, but the first more correct. I analyze the sentence as containing a compound...

. Hello Bino, Stand and take your punishment!You have two coordinate predicates, not clauses. Notice the difference with two coordinate clauses: Sit down, and he'll take your punishment for you! Here we have the two coordinate (independent) clauses.You are not out of date-- the comma is...

I was reading a website on English grammar. I came across a sentence which reads:"The old man wanted hide his money, for he feared his children would steal it from him."My quesiton is, why there is no "to" after "wanted"? Would someone shed some light on it?...

So what happens if we were to reverse it: "My friend is Maria", are we also reversing the roles? And what if we were to add a comma: "My friend, is Maria" is that the same? Or is it now an inversion or some kind of Yodaspeak?

Liveinjapan wrote: Thanks, Grammar Geek! So, used a comma splice, that would be okay: 'Fortunately we had a map,(<-- a comma splice) without it we would have gotten (/ been) lost. Is that what you mean? I understand what you said about how to separate the sentence into complete two...

Anonymous wrote: 1.Combine each set of simple sentences below to produce the kind of sentence specified in parentheses. 1) People begin to recycle. They generate much less trash. (Complex.) <No idea, but TIP: Using subordinating conjunctions!> 2) Environmentalists have...

Hello Let's see if I can help. It is true that any utterance can contain just one main caluse or more than one. I'm not sure if the definitions of "single clause" and "multiclause" were given to you and you have to stick to those definitions. I must say, however, that an utterance with more...